Break-up calculations for light projectile at E = 10-40 MeV/nucleon

The importance of the break-up (fragmentation, abrasion) reaction mechanisms for continuous spectra has been studied in both the elastic and inelastic modes. It is shown that: (1) Such mechanisms are of most importance for peripheral collisions. (2) In those cases where the cross section for break-up is a substantial part of the total reaction cross section its influence on other channels (e.g. the elastic one) can not be neglected. (3) The inelastic break-up mode is responsible for a substantial part of the experimental break-up yield. (4) The stripping reactions to the unbound states is also an interesting tool to study hitherto unexplored high lying single particle properties. (U.K.)